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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Nawal El Saadawi
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 27
Died: 2021
Died: March 21
Feminist
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We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.
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Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.
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Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
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Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
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She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.
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Unity is power without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
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Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.
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Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.
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